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The title track is a stroll down my musical memory lane.

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The Song is Everything

Long ago in the deep dark past The song was everything
Word for word and first to last That was the song we’d sing

We’d play our records till the grooves wore out
And then we’d play some more
Turn the radio up nice and loud
And out the music poured

The clock would rock until the king shook up
And broke his heart in a hotel
The sergeants played while the metre made
And Jonnie played like he was ringing a bell

Long days in a purple haze
33 to 45
Girls and boys all feel the noise And they get slayed alive

Sing it out, sing it out, sing it out Everybody sing
Sing it out, sing it out, sing it out The song is everything

(Listen now) Spin around like
a carrousel
On a horse without a name There comes a time when your spirits climb
And the song remains the same

Sweet as a gypsy queen
On a country radio
Park the Van in the Morrisan Hey where did we go?

Long ago I can still recall
How the music made me smile And if I cried on the day it died Well maybe for a while

Now songs are torn up and
thrown around
And they’re left blown’ in the wind But a secret chord can still please the Lord
Hallelujah lets join in

© JAMESONGS 2016

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from The Song is Everything, released August 1, 2020
JAMES WAKELING: VOCAL, VOCAL CHORUS, RHYTHM GUITAR, LEAD GUITAR, HAND CLAPS | TIM NIKOLSKY: BASS GUITAR | SERGE DE LUCIO: DRUMS, CAJON, HAND CLAPS | ROB VINCE: TENOR SAXOPHONE | MARGOT LEIGHTON:
HAND CLAPS

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